One Hundred Years of Argonauts

Malinowski, Ethnography and Economic Anthropology

Buch | Hardcover

362 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-521-8 (ISBN)

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Malinowski’s Argonauts of the Western Pacific was a major contribution to anthropological theory and method, while simultaneously establishing the sub-field of economic anthropology. Even a century after its publication, Malinowski’s pioneering work remains critical for anthropology in a postcolonial age. This volume uses ethnographic studies from around the world to contextualize the work politically and intellectually, examining its gestation and influence from multiple perspectives. It critically explores the meaning of “economy” for Malinowski from his formation in the Austro-Hungarian Empire to his path-breaking fieldwork in Melanesia and ensuing career in London.

Chris Hann is Emeritus Director at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle/Saale). His publications include Repatriating Polanyi: Market Society in the Visegrád States (Budapest 2019) and Work, Society, and the Ethical Self: Chimeras of Freedom in the Neoliberal Era (New York/Oxford 2021).

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Introduction: Argonauts Revisited

Chris Hann and Deborah James

Part I: Bronislaw Malinowski and his Argonauts in Context

Chapter 1. Cultural Capital and Economic Stringency: Reality and Myth in Bronisław Malinowski’s Socio-Economic Background

Grażyna Kubica

Chapter 2. Tenerife 1921: The Writing of Argonauts

Michael W. Young

Chapter 3. Malinowski’s New Paradigm

Adam Kuper

Chapter 4. Malinowski and the Politics of Economic Anthropology: Between Imperial Trusteeship and Colonial Trade

Freddy Foks

Part II: Economy, Economics, and Epistemics

Chapter 5. Compulsion to Work? Malinowski and the Labour Question

Rachel E. Smith

Chapter 6. On Tribal and Other Economies

Richard Staley

Chapter 7. Malinowski’s Place in the History of Economic Thought

Chris Gregory

Chapter 8. Can Economic Anthropology Escape from Primitive Economics? Thinking Ethnographically from the Oikos

Benoît de L’Estoile

Part III: Cosmology, History, and Social Organization

Chapter 9. Baloma: The Spirits of the Kula in the Trobriand Islands

Mark S. Mosko

*This chapter is available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) with support from Mark Mosko.

Chapter 10. The Archaeology of the Kula and Malinowski’s Notion of Economy

Hans Steinmüller

Chapter 11. Using Laozi to Interpret the Kula Ring: Rethinking the Dual Chieftainship in Kiriwina

Yongjia Liang

Part IV: Adaptations in Space and Time

Chapter 12. Passing On, Passing Around, and Passing Through: Urban Inheritance in South Africa as Circulation

Maxim Bolt

Chapter 13. The Anthropological Turn in the Sociology of Money

Ariel Wilkis

Chapter 14. The Digital Argonauts of the Western Pacific: From Kula Ring to Bush Internet

Geoffrey Hobbis and Stephanie Ketterer Hobbis

Afterword

Rebecca Empson

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	09.05.2024
Reihe/Serie	Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-80539-521-1 / 1805395211
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-521-8 / 9781805395218
Zustand	Neuware